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Internet Explorer users, beware.

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 12:39 am
by Obsidian
This is a video of the "Aurora" exploit, namely the zero-day exploit recently used to attack Google, Adobe, and other large companies.



Some time last year, this had happened then as well.
What did Microsoft say?

"It's only one vulnerability."

Well, here's another; many also believe that there are many, many more vulnerabilities waiting to be discovered in Internet Explorer.
And due to the proprietary nature of the code, they're all going to be found the hard way -- by people getting their systems hacked. Don't be one of them.

Looking to ditch IE? There's lots of more secure alternatives, namely:
  • Firefox 3.6
  • Arora
  • Opera
  • Safari
  • Google Chrome
There's some more as well, but those are the larger and more notable of the browsers.

Re: Internet Explorer users, beware.

Posted: January 22nd, 2010, 7:24 am
by stefos
I am one who uses firefox the only time I use IE is when i am testing my websites that I have created. Usually I have to change some code for the sites to be compatible with IE.
So many people still use IE it's a job that has to be done. It is amazing that with all the security updates that Microsoft produces for its products that they still do not have secure software on peoples computers. Windows XP since it's release has had probably over half a gig of updates and fixes maybe more, and still they have not finished.

It shows that the software that is produced is not fully operational or tested before being transported to computers.....who are the unpaid testers ? we are and guess what it is us who pays for it with our hard earned cash ! :roll:

Re: Internet Explorer users, beware.

Posted: February 17th, 2010, 8:35 pm
by Leo_V117
Thats what windows 7 was made for. to attempt to prevent this.

Re: Internet Explorer users, beware.

Posted: February 17th, 2010, 9:29 pm
by PizzaLover101
and chrome os

Re: Internet Explorer users, beware.

Posted: February 18th, 2010, 10:34 am
by Leo_V117
True, Chrome is not exactly google, if you know what i mean, its Google Chrome.

Re: Internet Explorer users, beware.

Posted: February 19th, 2010, 10:46 am
by PizzaLover101
i mean the new os, chrome

Re: Internet Explorer users, beware.

Posted: February 19th, 2010, 7:18 pm
by Leo_V117
its still google chrome, for os

Re: Internet Explorer users, beware.

Posted: February 21st, 2010, 10:04 am
by Obsidian
Actually, it's a totally separate project.

http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os

Re: Internet Explorer users, beware.

Posted: February 21st, 2010, 10:09 am
by Leo_V117
okay, i stand corrected.... sit corrected... whatever. the point is, i was corrected by the site tech.

Re: Internet Explorer users, beware.

Posted: February 21st, 2010, 10:17 am
by PizzaLover101
told you

Does anyone think that sandbox would run faster on linux?